Catholic Missions
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Unique Congress Planned for 1938
THE 150th Anniversary Celebrations period in New South Wales in 1938 has been chosen by the Roman Catholic Church authorities as an appropriate occasion to focus nation-wide attention on the work of the Australian and foreign missions.
The Regional Missionary and Eucharis tic Congress, to be held at Newcastle on February 16-20, 1938, will be the gather ing place of all the religious Orders who are spreading Christianity among the native races of Australia, New Guinea, China, Japan, the Philippines, and all the island groups of Oceania. It is proposed to make the Congress, as a spectacle, the outstanding event in the State’s Anniversary Celebrations. Dr. Gleeson, C.S.S.R. (Bishop of Maitland), in whose diocese the Congress will be held, has appointed 200 prominent clergy and lay men on various committees to organise the Congress.
Rev. F. Riley, M.A., will leave for Western Samoa by the Monterey on June 25, to do relief work for Rev. W . E.
Moren, who has been in ill-health for some time and is now on eight months’ furlough. Mr. Riley was in Samoa in August, 1914, as chaplain of H.M.A.S.
Australia.
Mr. K. W. Neill, of Adelaide, South Australia, left Sydney early in June for Lae, where he will carry out the usual audit for Guinea Airways Ltd.